Someone Else’s Kid

Photo by Petros Symeonidis on Unsplash — an interpretation of the setting, not the moment itself.

Her son’s bike was stolen the week before his paper-route tryout. A father from two streets over — they’d never spoken — left his own son’s outgrown bike by their gate, tuned up, tires full. The route is his now.

This story was submitted anonymously. We wrote it down, because someone should remember.

— We Are Silence Dogood